Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 2024

The Legal Aid Agency ("LAA") is inviting Tenders to deliver the publicly funded civil legal aid services, to commence from 1 September 2024 under the 2024 Standard Civil Contract ("2024 Contract").

This is an additional procurement exercise, and supplemental to that launched on 13 September 2023. Providers do not need to submit a response to this procurement process in the following circumstances:

- those who have been notified of a successful outcome of their 2024 Standard Civil Tender through the eTendering message board; and - those who are not seeking to deliver Contract Work in additional Categories of Law and/or from additional offices/Procurement Areas

The LAA intends to award contract work under this process to commence on or around 1 September 2024, however, it cannot guarantee this date and the actual date contract work may commence could be later.

This exercise will cover the following Categories of Law:

- Family. - Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits. - Immigration and Asylum (including work at Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). - Mental Health. - Community Care. - Claims Against Public Authorities. - Clinical Negligence. - Public Law. - Family Mediation. - Education; and - Discrimination.

Alongside tenders for the above Categories of Law, applicants may also tender to deliver the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS). HLPAS contract work awarded under this exercise will commence as soon as possible after 1 September 2024. This opportunity will be restricted to the following areas only:

- Barnstaple, Torquay & Newton Abbott - Blackpool, Preston - Crewe - Lancaster - St Helens - Taunton, Yeovil - Wigan

All organisations that meet the minimum contract requirements can tender to deliver services under a 2024 contract. You do not need to be a current legal aid provider to tender for this opportunity.

All organisations that successfully tender will be awarded a 2024 contract and there is no limit to the number of 2024 contracts that may be awarded under this process.

Applicants must review the following documents which set out the complete rules of the additional 2024 procurement process and should be read in the following order:

- Selection Questionnaire Invitation to Tender (SQ ITT ADD); - Award ITT ADD; - Category-Specific Information; - HLPAS ITT ADD (to tender for HLPAS work); - HLPAS Specific Information ADD document (to tender for HLPAS work); - 2024 Contract; and - Frequently Asked Questions.

All Tenders must be completed and submitted using the eTendering system, accessed through:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-2024-contract-procurement-process or https://legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk

Late submissions will not be considered under any circumstances.

It is the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline and ensure its Tender has been correctly completed to fully and properly represent its tender for the 2024 Contract.